Director Thomas F. Staley:
Major Acquisitions and Achievements
Thomas F. Staley.
Photo by Marsha Miller.
1988
1989
- Stuart Gilbert collection of James Joyce materials
- Penelope Fitzgerald papers
- Anvil Press poetry archive
1990
Unidentified photographer. Samuel Beckett outside Burlington House in Picadilly Square. London, ca. 1956. Gelatin silver print.
- Samuel Beckett letters to Kay Boyle and materials related to the publication of Beckett's Beginning to End
- Transcription Centre archive
- Steve Martin collection
1991
- John Fowles archive
- Elizabeth Hardwick collection, including materials by Robert Lowell
- Roy Harvey and Julius Patteson photography collection
1992
1993
Isaac Bashevis Singer's Yiddish typewriter. Photo by Pete Smith.
- Tom Stoppard archive
- Isaac Bashevis Singer archive
- David Hare archive
- Warren Skaaren archive
- Sybille Bedford archive
1994
- Laurence Pollinger collection of Graham Greene materials
- Audrey Wood papers
- James Saunders archive
- Initiation of the Fleur Cowles Flair Symposium
1995
- John Osborne papers
- Karl Shapiro correspondence
- Adrienne Kennedy archive
- Peter Matthiessen papers
- Laurette Taylor collection
David Douglas Duncan.
Corporal machinegunner Leonard Hayworth upon learning there were no more grenades, ammunition for his machinegun, reinforcements to take the place of the wounded and dead, or communication from the rear. Korea, September 1950.
1996
- David Douglas Duncan photography archive
- Penelope Lively archive
- Hugh Kenner archive
- Frith Banbury papers
- Ruth Robertson image archive
1997
1998
- Bernard Malamud archive
- Gordon Dickerson collection of modern British playwrights
- Elizabeth Olds papers
1999
- Arnold Wesker archive
- Terrence McNally papers
- Lee Blessing papers
- Jorge Luis Borges papers
- Doris Lessing papers
Mother and child in FSA camp, ca. 1938. Sanora Babb collection.
2000
- Brian Moore archive
- James Salter archive
- David Higham & Associates archive
- Typescript of Thomas Pynchon's V
- Alice Adams papers
- Anita Brenner papers
- Robert Park Mills papers
- Sanora Babb collection
2001
- Sebastian Barry archive
- Library of William B. Todd and Ann Bowden, including prize bindings, Sir Walter Scott, and James Boswell collections
Bob Woodward's notes from the preliminary hearing for the five men arrested at the Democratic National Committee Headquarters in the Watergate office complex, June 17, 1972. Woodward and Bernstein Watergate papers.
2002
2003
- Woodward and Bernstein Watergate papers
- Raymond Queneau collection
- Stella Adler archive
- Edward Chodorov papers
- Reopening of the Center following its building renovation
2004
2005
2006
Hack license used in preparation for Taxi Driver (1976). Robert De Niro collection.
2007
2008
- Collection of Ezra Pound materials
- Creation of University Co-op's Harry Ransom Lectures in Humanities, a lecture and residency program in the arts and humanities
- John Steinbeck letters
- Jim Crace archive
2009
- Collection of African, African-American and Native-American literature from Charles R. Larson
- Jayne Anne Phillips archive
2010
- David Foster Wallace archive
- Magnum Photos archive to be housed at Ransom Center
- Paul Schrader archive
- Andre Dubus papers
2011
Storyboard from Rebel Without a Cause (1955) from the Nicholas Ray archive.
- Plate painted by Pablo Picasso for David Douglas Duncan
- Collection of Bruce Sterling materials
- Nicholas Ray archive
- Collection of materials related to The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
- Commentary magazine archive
- Elliott Erwitt archive to be housed at the Ransom Center
- J. M. Coetzee archive
- Fleur Cowles archive
2012
- T. C. Boyle archive
- Thomas Smith archive
- D. D. Paige collection of Ezra Pound materials
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Austin TX 78713-7219
